Letter: Voices of the dead 'cry for us to stand'

I am writing in reference to Anthony Westbury's column, "It's about prevention not abortion" (Sept. 14). He points to the "misguided" forces arrayed against Planned Parenthood, most specifically, the "religious right and perhaps others." I would, most likely, fall into the "perhaps others" misguided category. I am Catholic.

Ninety-one thousand abortions in Florida in 2007 is indicative of this "wolf in sheep's clothing" that is prowling the vulnerable flanks of our society. Mr. Westbury proclaims that "without these programs (publicly funded sex education for the young provided by Planned Parenthood) our teen pregnancy and sexual disease rates would soar even higher than they are now."

We have heard similar arguments before: "racial purity," "workers paradise," "the great leap forward" — all of which resulted in the wanton murder of the least desirable among us.

This many-headed hydra's newest tentacle, abortion on demand, is again man's creation. It saps our will to resist with false promises and euphemistic phrases to cover the evil beneath.

We are only a small dot on this map of evil, but the stench of broken bodies is reaching down to test our will and common decency. They cry for us to stand.